His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.

Over the years, George has been one of the most successful equity portfolio managers in the financial services industry.

[Zoffinger said managers and staff are reviewing why wagering was off and they are meeting with focus groups of customers to come up with] multiple ideas ... At this point, we have to only guess at what the philosophic direction will be of the next administration, and (we) won't know until the election is over.

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off,